Quotes About Perception

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.